- Title
- Rates of hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the Medicare+Choice population.
- First Author
- McCall, Nancy
- Date of Pub
- 2001 Spring
- Pages
- 127-145
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 3
- Other Authors
- Dayhoff, Debra; Harlow, Jennifer
- Abstract
- This article evaluates the feasibility of developing hospitalization rates for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) for the Medicare+Choice (M+C) population. M+C inpatient encounter data were used to calculate 15 ACSC rates. We found the initial reporting year of M+C inpatient encounter data had no apparent volume or diagnosis-based biases and over 90 percent of M+C organizations had sufficient enrollment to produce statistically reliable rates. Further, our study results support the premise tat ACSCs could be used as sentinel events for potentially vulnerable populations; the oldest old and the disabled experienced statistically significant higher rates of ACSC admissions than younger Medicare beneficiaries.
- Abstract Continued
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- MeSH
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- NTIS Number
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